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Movie Review – Foxtrot (2017)

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Foxtrot, 2017.Written and Directed by Samuel Maoz. Starring Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler, Yonaton Shiray, Shira Haas, Yehuda Almagor, and Karin Ugowski.SYNOPSIS:A troubled family faces the facts when something goes terribly wrong at their son’s desolate military post.From its opening frame, it’s evident that Foxtrot (written and directed by Samuel Maoz of Lebanon reverence) is boasting elegant […]

Movie Review – Unsane (2018)

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Unsane, 2018.Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Starring Claire Foy, Joshua Leonard, Jay Pharoah, Juno Temple, Polly McKie, Amy Irving, Sarah Stiles, and Matt Damon.SYNOPSIS:A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear–but is it real or a product of her delusion?Unsane remains engaging throughout, with a tipping […]

Movie Review – Pacific Rim Uprising (2018)

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Pacific Rim Uprising, 2018.Directed by Steven S. DeKnight. Starring John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Cailee Spaeny, Charlie Day, Rinko Kikuchi, Burn Gorman, Jing Tian, Zhang Jin, Adria Arjona, Karan Brar, Ivanna Sakhno, Shyrley Rodríguez, Levi Meaden, Rahart Adams, Zhu Zhu, Wesley Wong, Lily Ji, and Mackenyu.SYNOPSIS:Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to […]

Movie Review – Submission (2018)

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Submission, 2018.Written and Directed by Richard Levine. Starring Stanley Tucci, Addison Timlin, Janeane Garofalo, Ritchie Coster, Colby Minifie, Jessica Hecht, and Kyra Sedgwick.SYNOPSIS:A cynical college professor takes a keen interest in a talented young writing student.You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs… or something like that as in Submission young aspiring writer […]

Movie Review – As Far as the Eye Can See (2018)

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As Far as the Eye Can See, 2018.Directed by David Franklin. Starring Jason London, Danny Mora, Luci Christian, Jenni Tooley, and Gary Teague.SYNOPSIS:Jack Ridge is a former piano prodigy living on a farm he has let go to seed. He’s living in the past, but the future is coming for him.Southern hospitality is ever so […]

Second Opinion – Flower (2018)

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Flower, 2018.Directed by Max Winkler Starring Zoey Deutch, Joey Morgan, Adam Scott, Tim Heidecker, and Kathryn Hahn.SYNOPSIS:A sexually curious teen forms an unorthodox kinship with her mentally unstable stepbrother.Flower is as unstable a ride as many of the characters that inhabit it, so let’s just start at the beginning which sees Erica (Zoey Deutch radiating […]

Movie Review – I Kill Giants (2018)

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I Kill Giants, 2018.Directed by Anders Walter. Starring Madison Wolfe, Sydney Wade, Zoe Saldana, Imogen Poots, Noel Clarke, Rory Jackson, Ciara O’Callaghan, and Jennifer Ehle.SYNOPSIS:Barbara Thorson struggles through life by escaping into a fantasy life of magic and monsters.I Kill Giants, while a decent debut full-length feature from director Anders Walter (based on Joe Kelly’s […]

Movie Review – The Death of Stalin (2017)

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The Death of Stalin, 2017.Directed by Armando Iannucci. Starring Steve Buscemi, Jeffrey Tambor, Simon Russell Beale, Andrea Riseborough, Adrian Mcloughlin, Jason Isaacs, Rupert Friend, Paddy Considine, Michael Palin, Olga Kurylenko, Paul Whitehouse, Paul Chahidi, Richard Brake, Jonathan Aris, and Dermot Crowley.SYNOPSIS:Follows the Soviet dictator’s last days and depicts the chaos of the regime after his […]

Movie Review – Tomb Raider (2018)

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Tomb Raider, 2018.Directed by Roar Uthaug. Starring Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Derek Jacobi, Kristin Scott Thomas, Hannah John-Kamen, and Nick Frost.SYNOPSIS:Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.Alicia Vikander is the first […]

Movie Review – 7 Days in Entebbe (2018)

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7 Days in Entebbe. 2018Directed by José Padilha Starring Rosamond Pike, Daniel Bruhl, Lior Ashkenazi, Eddie Marsan, Ben Schnetzer, Nonso Anozie, Denis Ménochet, Brontis Jodorowsky, Zina Zinchenko, Mark Ivanir, and Peter SullivanSynopsis:Inspired by the true events of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, and the most daring […]